Reader's Page: Two ways of guidance

By ALVIN PETTY

Published 3:03 am, Tuesday, October 6, 2015

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There are two ways of guiding your life. One is by referring to objects outside yourself. Or, you can be guided by God through self-referral, which is learning to hear God's voice through your own inner voice that comes from your soul. Hence we call this self-referral.

Everyone is connected to God in their soul, but of course not everyone is aware of it. But if you choose to live in conscious awareness of God who is in you, then you can pause, be still, and consult your own inner self about the questions or situations confronting you and the right answer will arise from within. Usually it will be a feeling of comfort in your body, usually in the area of your heart or your gut. This feeling of comfort is a divine yes to your question or situation. Or if you have a feeling of discomfort in the same area of your body, then that will be a no answer for you from God. If we are open to our soul's knowledge through our own small still voice or through our minds within us, God will guide us as he did the prophets and Jesus. (I Kings 19:12 and Habakkuk 2:1). This is called self-referral because it comes from within ourselves. It is a wonderful way to become our very highest self.

Now object referral can be any object outside of your soul that influences your decisions. It can be a position in business, the community, the family or the church. It can be money or some form of social or religious power. It can be the opinions of others, even of your loved ones. It can be worry over how well you perform at your job or in everyday life. But it is always something that you give deference to in making your decisions. These objects are the center and control of your life. This comes from your ego and it is always fear based.

Self-referral is faith based in God and yourself and it always generates love and is worry free because you are in unity and peace with yourself, your world and God. You are into object referral if, to feel good and secure, you have to have praise from others, if you have to accomplish more than you did last time, have to have a nice car or home, have to have a perfectly clean home, have to have a lot of money or the appearance of money, have to be considered the best worker in your crew, etc. Those controlled by this are always driven by fear. It keeps you from knowing peace.

This is living apart from your eternal soul. Your eternal soul is your spiritual body that God shall raise from the dead when your physical body dies. Your physical body does not raise.

When you become aware of God within you and you choose to live in God consciousness, you realize that you are a co-creator with God of your life, your affluence, your world. And you feel at home in this world because you are helping God to create it and shape it. Co-creating with God is your purpose in life. It makes you and others truly happy as you fulfill your purpose. In all that you do your purpose is to help God bless the people around you. An old chorus says, “This world is not my home,” but that is not true for you. “I will build more barns to store my goods and say to my soul, eat, drink and be merry for you have much wealth for ages to come.”

But God said to him that night, “Fool, this night your soul shall be required of thee. Then whose wealth shall this be.” Do not measure your life by object referral.